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From: jordan@nike.UUCP
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Subject: Re: 'dbm' hash table software
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 14:08:13 EDT
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	The reason I am suspicious is that after creating a large hash
	table and apparently not getting any errors, certain entries in
	the database don't exist, for no reason I understand.

dbm was a hack to get 4.2 out the door -- 4.3 has a new implementation
that does the right thing (i.e., dbm_open() returns a DBM *) and the size
restriction was raised to 4096 bytes ... however, I think there
are still some inconsistancies in the man page.

/jordan